ALULA, SAUSID ARABIA – The Royal Commission for AlUla‘s (RCU) recent debut in the world of the Metaverse invited visitors to discover and explore a to-scale and completely immersive 3D model of Hegra’s Tomb of Lihyan, Son of Kuza – the very first UNESCO World Heritage website in the amazing, and internationally available, digital world.
Now, RCU has actually gone one action even more by utilizing the Metaverse’s unbelievable versatility and ability to engage with virtual travelers in amazing brand-new measurements with the launch of an interactive hot air balloon experience. The next awesome stage of RCU’s Metaverse journey, the experience releases along with the latest edition of the yearly AlUla Hot Air Balloon Festival, in cooperation with the Saudi Arabian Hot Air Ballooning Federation.
Offering online visitors unique and hyper-realistic 360-degree views of Hegra’s most popular landmark, the hot air balloon experience integrates all the delights of skyrocketing into the skies above the digital desert with distinct experiences created to improve playability and raise enjoyment levels. In addition, RCU is offering a restricted variety of balloon riders an opportunity to get a NFT wearable which will open future experiences on the metaverse.
Combing the enjoyable of a no holds disallowed video experience with the amazing phenomenon of a real-life hot air balloon flight above Hegra, the experience is the perfect addition to RCU’s extensive and ingenious entry into the Metaverse, permitting it to get in touch with a varied spectrum of online visitors of any ages.
Created in the large and quickly broadening digital landscape of Decentraland in partnership with distinguished international imaginative consultancy frog, the virtual Hegra provides broadened availability to digital travelers, who can explore its distinct functions from throughout the world.
Part of the Capgemini Group, frog was selected to establish, provide and assist in Hegra’s Metaverse launching while totally supporting RCU’s clever technique to move development and accept the latest advances in innovation through the extensive regrowth of AlUla County.
A journey to Hegra in the Metaverse is outstanding, motivating, and mesmerising. Visitors can take a 360-degree trip of AlUla’s most popular and enforcing burial place, set among a sensible making of the desert landscape.
Providing a more available experience than what is possible in reality, Decentraland travelers can immerse themselves in Hegra’s history by stepping through the burial place’s enforcing entrance.
Hegra in the Metaverse marks a significant advance in RCU’s journey of development – a sprint into the future of experiential tourist that guarantees AlUla is prepared to invite visitors in a quickly emerging digital future.
As RCU’s existence in the Metaverse progresses, Hegra will play host to a diverse calendar of occasions produced to digitally present the world to the marvels of AlUla, making the abundant culture, heritage, and customs of north-west Arabia more available to more individuals than ever in the past.
Information websites will direct visitors to various elements of AlUla’s heritage, broadening awareness of its 200,000 years of shared human history while drastically reimagining its abundant custom of sharing understanding for the 21st Century and beyond as part of KSA’s Vision 2030 program to empower technological improvement and development.
Ahmed H Daoud, Acting Executive Director of Innovation at RCU, said: “RCU’s launching in the Metaverse was the initial step on a journey of discovery that will, eventually, reveal brand-new and amazing worlds to help broaden and boost AlUla’s connection with a brand-new generation of technology-led international audiences.
“Hegra’s presence in the Metaverse greatly elevates the enormous thrill visitors feel when visiting the physical site in AlUla through interactive experiences that push the frontiers of what can be imagined through digital encounters. The addition of a new hot air balloon experience means Metaverse tourists can observe Hegra in new dimensions, giving digital explorers access to one of the world’s most treasured landmarks in ways that expands what is possible in real life.”
The hot air balloon experience follows last month’s Saudi Tour activation on the Metaverse, which permitted digital visitors to enjoy live broadcasts Hegra.
UNESCO designated Hegra as KSA’s very first World Heritage Site in 2008. Located 20km north of AlUla town, the website covers 52 hectares and functions 110 burial places amidst spectacular rock developments, with the Tomb of Lihyan, Son of Kuza the biggest burial place at 22 metres high. Referred to as the ‘lonely castle’ due to the fact that of its range from other monoliths, it is the biggest maintained website of the ancient Nabataean civilization south of Petra in Jordan.
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